[Oberon] ETH (Active) Oberon Language Report 2019

[Treutwein Bernhard]

> From: Skulski, Wojciech <skulski at pas.rochester.edu> 
> Sent: Tuesday, November 19, 2019 7:14 PM

> > Although all languages are called Oberon, they define not the same language (have different compilers)
> > - Oberon
> > - Oberon-2
> > - Active Oberon
> > - Oberon-07
> > are all different languages.
>
> I would add Component Pascal to this mix ;-) 

Absolutely correct, I would think also that CP should be added/mentioned

[...] All these languages originated through some stepwise refinement. 

hmm, this is a bit euphemistic. Some of these are stepwise refined extensions, others are deliberate reductions
and Active Oberon has huge extensions, operators with overloading, arrays with special storage conventions, 
objects, and more ...

> It would be interesting to read a review of what has been learned, both positive and negative.

Yes, I would also appreciate to see such a review very much

@Liam: thanks a lot for the pointer to yet another forum (http://cas.inf.ethz.ch/projects/a2/boards). 

Bernhard